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Slavic languages belong to the synthetic language group, which means that unlike English and other analytical languages, different grammatical aspects are expressed in only one word by changing the structure of that word - adding an ending or prefix, modifying the core of the word, etc. In analytical languages such as English, the same is achieved by using separate auxiliary verbs, pronouns or adjectives while the actual word remains unchanged. In Neoslavonic as well as in all Slavic languages, one word is often sufficient to express what English can only achieve by using multiple words. Slavic languages use a rather complex system of declension and conjugation. Declension (modifications of a word to express various grammatical categories) affects nouns, adjectives, pronouns, and numerals, while conjugation relates to verbs.

On the otherhand, itshould be notedthat Latin andGreek(andSanskrit as well) have a verysimilar system ofgrammarand morphology totheSlavic languages. These classical languages alsouse very similar system of declension and conjugation.But this is not any surprise at all. Slaviclanguagesbelongto a largefamily ofIndo-Europeanlanguages.You will be surprisedhow many words and grammar principles in Slaviclanguages aresimilarto other languages.

How to learn Neoslavonic?

When studyingthese lessons we assume thatYou will have printeda briefoverview ofthe Neoslavonic grammar,whichcan be downloadedhere. Moreover, we have our site (download.neoslavonic.org), where You can get yet more interesting information for You.

Detailed description of the Neoslavonic grammar and some other useful information has its own web site at the address www.neoslavonic.org.

The dictionary isan importantpart of Yourstudy.

This tutorial site has two vocabulary pages: vocabulary NS-EN and vocabulary EN-NS. This littledictionary contains 500 wordsused in thistutorial.Pleaseprintit foryouruse.
BasicNeoslavonic dictionary isat this address: download.neoslavonic.org/slovniky ns. Hereare the words thatformed a commonbasis of evolution of today'sSlaviclanguages assembled and modernized from early medieval sources. Total number of words is about 6000. However, other words fromthe modern era are not in this basic dictionary (e.g. technology, science, ...). Wehad them to createartificiallyusing themaximumcompliancewith today'slanguages.

The interslavic dictionary of modern words isavailable on a separate address dict.slovioski.com.

If you find all thesedictionariesinsufficient,You can usewords fromyournativeSlavic language,butplease modify them according to the rulesof Neoslavonicgrammar. If You are not a native Slavic speaker, try to use some spoken Slavic language. Good result can be done with Slovak or Rusyn, but any other Slavic language can You help well (Czech, Croatian, Serbian, Ukrainian, ...). Inthis case, You mustgivegreatattentionto following two things:

National languagescontain the unintelligible specifics to the other Slavic languages.For example,Polishcontains many words from German, southern languages have words from Turkish andGreek, Russian has something from Tartaric etc. Please make sure thatifyourword alsoexistsin anotherSlaviclanguages.

Slavic languages contain limited amount of common words, that look or sound similar, but strongly differ in their meaning. For sure, please check Your words at this website: false friends of the slavist.

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To improve your language skills you need to make sure that your ideas, stick together and that the gap between them is bridged smoothly. This is by using transitions words that help bring two ideas together. You can find them at this page.

There are words and phrases used for the everyday life conversations. It might come handy if You will memorize them. You can find these words and phrases here.